The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-09-22
SARATOGA cONvErTrON.
Fred Grant Nenatnated for Secretary
OfState by New York Republicans

It SARATOGACONyE
q Fred Grant Nominated for seeresa-
OfStafe by New York Republicans
SARATOGA. Sept. 14.-Full dele
I cations to the Republican Conventio
arrived during last night. Consul
tatlons regarding nominations an
organization continued till near mid
night. Senators EVartS and Hiscoc
declined to be considered aspirant
!, for the Craftsmanship of the convention
l and both agreed to urge Seth Low TO
pro tenn and Warner Miller for pei
m:nent chairman of the state con
vention. After Mr.. Miller acQuiesce,
: in this arrangement, sovoted, yesterda,
} afternoon, Senator Hiscock called up
on ex-senator Miller at his rooms q
Congress Hall and friendly interview
occurred. Later Mr.. Miller returned
Senator Hiscock's call, and then it wa
arranged that a conference of the lead
ing men should take place. Messrs
HiScOck, Morton, Miller and Burleigf
consultation. General support of 8
platform was considered and the shap
ing of the state ticket discussed. The
platform will be temperate, but aggreS.
siVe, arraigning the Democratic party
for its. short-comings, and asserting the
necessity of Republican restoration, de-
clares for protection and that the
tariff laws, when changed, shall be
changed by their friends, approving the
temperance legislation of last winter.
attacking President Cleveland for his
| faithleSSneSS to civil service reform,
| and Governor Hill for his Vetoes, de-
| claring for advanced civil service re-
form, improvement in the tax laws,
cheap transportation, pure primaries
oil k1nIR
Irish home rule. The ticket is shaped
as follows: Secretary of State, Fred
Grant, of New York; Comptroller,
Jesse Lawrence, of Saratoga; State
Treasurer, James II Carmichael, of
Erie; State Engineer, Perry II. Cor
nell, of TompkinS. Promptly at noon
693 delegates met at the Casino Rink
and the convention was called to order,
and after prayer Hon. Seth Low was
announced as temporary chairman and
addressed the convention.
When convention reassembled, the
Committee on resolutions was not
ready to report. Colonel Fed Grant
was nominated by a reclamation for
Secretary of State, Judge Jesse S.
Lamoreaux was nominated for Comp
troller, and James II. Carmichael for
Treasurer: James A. Dennison, of
Fulton, Attorney General. and II. p.
Cornell for State Engineer and Survey
or, completing the ticket.
The platform begins by stating that
the Republican party seeks restoration
to power in the nation and the state,
and rehearses its record and that of the
Democratic party since its acquisition
proceeds as follows: 1.-TWO and half
years of Democratic President, who
has had the cooperation of an
overwhelming majority in the House
of Representatives, where, under the
Constitution, all revenues must orig
mate, have exposed the incapacitv of
the Democratic party and the weak
ness of the Democratic policy, under
which so much was promised the peo-
only broken pledges, failure to
promote the peoples interest,
no plan to reduce the revenues
or retrench expenditures, no purpose to
promote practical civil service reform,
or otherwise to improve the public SER
vice, while conspicuous among the
many shortcomings of this Admins
tration are numberless appointees,
who have proved faithless and incom-
petent. The postal service is disorgan-
lied and its efficiency impaired and the
public business in other departments
delayed and INSTRUCTED. We adhere
firmly to the American policy under
whose operation uneXampled pros
perity and thrift have blessed the land,
and hold that any changes to be made
in the tariff laws should be made by
the friends of these laws, and in inter
est of the protection of labor on our
own soil and our home markets must be
preserved to the products of American
labor and capital, and prohibited from
foreign encroachments. The principle
of the national and state civil service
reform laws has our hearty approval.
These laws should be executed in the
spirit in which they were enacted and
accepted by the people, and be adj
vanced and made permanent" The
platform charges President Cleveland
and Governor Hill with hypocrisy and
systematic perverSion of the law to par
tisian purposes and says: 1.-The political
right of all persons throughout the
land must be established firmly and be-
yond controversy" 1t charges, per
Secutions of the Workingmen in the
South and denial of his civil rights"
and declares that ''a fair hearing on all
questions, "a free ballot in every citizens
hand, and an honest count of
the vote are just prerogatives
of citizenship, to which full respect
must be paid to insure the enjoyment
OF the freeman's birthright and the
maintenance OF republican govern
veterans of the Union armies and
navies are entitled to the liberal con-
sideration of this people for all public
preferment, and should receive gen.
erous care and adequate pensions. The
f1ippant, sneaking language of
President Cleveland's Vetoes of
pension bills was insulting to
Executive. Thetsubserviency displayed
in Mr.. Cleveland's illegal order to
return the rebel flags, the precious
trophies of the Union troops, deserves
only reprobation, and justly excites
the resentment of all loyal people,"
On the liquor question in the state it
says: We heartily endorse the purpose
of the representative majority of the
Legislature in passing the bills to limit
and restrict the liquor traffic, and we
condemn the vetoes of the Governor as
hostile to that purpose. We recon-
mend comprehensive and efficient leg
islatiOn for governing local option by
counties, towns and states, and re-
strictiOn by taxation in such localities
as do not by their option exclude abso-
lutely the tariff. a minority report ON
the liquor question was defeated by:
vote of 575 to 1855. 1t said that while
the Republican party of the State of
New York unalterably opposed
any legislation which attempts to
prohibit individual freedom of choice
of beverages as well as of
food or raiment, it recognizes the right
of the people of this state to repress and
punish intemperance in any form pre-
judicial to the welfare Of society. 1t
also recognizes the right of the people
to compel all traffic in any articles
which may tend to produce or increase
pauperism or crime to bear the burdens
of taxation which through them are
imposed upon the people"